The Handle by Richard Stark
I found The Handle (Pocket Books, 1966) by Richard Stark, i.e., Donald Westlake, on my Kindle a couple of weeks ago. I did not remember reading it, or perhaps my reading was too long ago to recall, but I promptly moved it up on my metaphoric stack. The Handle is the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bland Beginning by Julian Symons
Cruising through eBay last fall, always a dangerous pastime, I found a group of books in the short-lived Unicorn Mystery Book Club. The subscription service published four crime fiction novels in a single volume, beginning in 1945 and ending in late 1952. The 83...
The Scavengers by Bill Knox
William Knox (1928–1999) was a Scottish author, journalist and broadcaster, known for his more than 50 crime novels and for presenting the long-running STV series Crimedesk. In the 1970s, he presented a 15-minute segment asking for...